VP of Engineering, Consumer
Car shopping is complicated. At CarGurus, we use data and technology to make it simple, giving people the tools they need to confidently find, buy, finance, or sell a car. The best part? Our work makes a real impact. We’re the most-visited car-shopping site in the US and we are growing fast in our international markets. Ready to come along for the ride?
CarGurus is looking for an experienced, motivated, and innovative VP of Engineering to be responsible for our Consumer function. As a leader in the organization, you will have overall responsibility for developing and implementing the consumer product vision and strategy for CarGurus’ industry-leading and evolving car shopping service! The ideal candidate will bring extensive engineering management skills, people leadership expertise, and business understanding to the role. Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, you will work with a diverse group of partners and your team to take CarGurus’ already market leading core consumer experience to the next level. You will identify ways to continue to differentiate with a focus on consumer needs and capitalize on opportunities to continually improve and grow CarGurus’ innovative used car shopping experience. The engineering leader will partner with the product teams to identify the highest potential product improvements and new consumer opportunities. Additional collaboration across the engineering organization will be critical for success and optimizing results.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and inspire several growing engineering teams in development of world class software for our Consumer Platform
- Collaborate with other departments to define new products. This will include our Digital Retail, B2B, Wholesale, Analytics, Infrastructure, Product, Information Security, etc.
- Work closely with engineering leaders to architect, design, and improve our core technology platforms
- Prioritize team efforts and plan projects in a highly iterative environment
- Plan, design, and implement product prototypes to production to validate market opportunities. Our engineering teams work closely with Product and Design to make sure we have our priorities aligned
- Coach and mentor engineering directors, managers, and IC’s across the department. Our Consumer Engineering function has north of 40 members of the group
- Actively partner with Talent Acquisition to continue to hire and retain top talent across engineering, product and other departments
Who You Are:
- 15+ years of Software Engineering Experience
- 8+ years of team leadership experience
- Ability to lead the SDLC: development, testing, and delivery of multiple software products
- Ensure all developed products meet communicated needs/goals.
- Capable of providing mentorship for engineering directors, managers, and leads.
- Proven experience analyzing data to determine trends to prevent engineering problems
- Experienced with building scalable websites (e-commerce) or large-scale applications.
- Knowledge of SEO, Email Marketing, Mobile Applications, Search Infrastructure and/or Conversion Optimization a major plus
- Understanding of how to build high volume, distributed back-end services with latest technologies
- Bachelors and/or advanced degrees in a related STEM field (preferred)
Our Current Tech Environment: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, React/Redux, HTML, CSS, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka
CarGurus Culture:
Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.
At CarGurus, we invest in our people’s professional growth with everything from learning and development programs to tuition reimbursement. Want to work on projects that expand your skill set without sacrificing your work/life balance? You got it. We also strive to provide perks and benefits that employees actually care about like free lunch, commuter subsidies, and more. That includes equity in the company—our way of showing that we want you here for the long haul.
We work hard every day to build the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace, but trust and transparency don’t just apply to our consumers. They extend to our talent, too. We aim to create a workplace where everyone feels they can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—where you don’t just fit, you thrive. We don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
We recognize that flexibility plays a critical role in enabling our people to thrive in both their personal and professional lives. We currently welcome Gurus into our Cambridge, MA office on a voluntary basis but do not require employees to physically be in the office. We will adopt a hybrid working model when health experts and government officials in our local communities deem it safe to do so. Specific arrangements within this model will be up to team leaders’ discretion; we encourage you to discuss your questions and needs during the interview process.
All US CarGurus employees are required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation. This helps us to safeguard the health of our employees and their families, our customers and visitors, and the community at large.
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